Overview
For many years now, the research community has tried to identify benefits of multilingualism for cognition (executive functions). This endeavour initially came about because there was a worry about a potential disadvantage. Finding such a benefit has proven extremely difficult, though, as replication of findings has been poor.
In more recent years, therefore, researchers have started to ask the question differently and are now looking for a multilingual difference rather than an advantage. There has also been a call to use more measures of both multilingualism and executive functions. This talk will present one such study (the CLIC project) that is taking place in Singapore, a multilingual country by law.
Speaker
Dr Henriëtte Hendriks is Professor of Language Acquisition and Cognition. Her main research area is cognitive linguistics, and she researches the relationship between language and cognition through work in child first and adult second language acquisition.
Dr Hendriks studied Sinology at Leiden University, and then started her career at the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics where she worked as a coordinator on three different European-wide projects.
Details
This is a hybrid event, which will take place in-person in the Gatsby Room (Chancellor's Centre) and also on Zoom.
If you would like to attend online, please register for the Zoom link.
Refreshments will be available for the in-person audience.
Access
This event will take place in the Gatsby Room on the first floor of the Chancellor's Centre. It has step-free access with a lift and there is an accessible toilet located each floor of the building.
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